Shiloh Strikes Again!

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"Atheism is a religion. Evolution the creed. Darwin the prophet. Scientist the priest."

Every line of this sign is wrong. What else can I say? Does Rev. Kirkpatrick think the best way to reach unbelievers is to insult them? Stereotypical statements like this makes me like religion even less than I did before.

I think it's time that I become a little more active in promoting positive atheism to counter this kind of misinformation.

P.S.
I also took a picture of the other side of the sign. At first glance, the sign has an unremarkable statement and scripture reference.

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So, I looked up the scripture reference and here's what it says,

"My son, hear the instruction of thy father, and forsake not the law of thy mother:" Proverbs 1:8

Hmmm, I think it takes a lot of spiritual guidance to get to what the sign says out of that. I think the verse above that one is much more appropriate.

"The fear of the LORD is the beginning of knowledge: but fools despise wisdom and instruction." Proverbs 1:7

I know it's a simple typo. I make them all the time myself. It's just funny that it takes an atheist to catch that error. I bet if one of Kirkpatrick's parishoners had looked the reference up (instead of taking everything their pastor says as truth), that mistake would have been corrected before I read it.

Here's another typo that took an atheist to catch.